Connectal Design

• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Document Organization
• Accelerating String Search
  • Initial Implementation
  • Multithreading the Software
  • Refining the Interfaces
  • Shared Access to Host Memory
• The Connectal Framework
  • Portals
  • Direct user-mode access to hardware
  • Shared Access to Host Memory
  • Distributed Access to Memory Ports
  • Platform Portability
• Implementing String Search
  • Initial Implementation
  • Multithreading The Software
  • Shared Access to Host Memory
  • Alternate Portal Implementations
• Workflow using Connectal
  • Top level structure of Connectal applications
  • Development cycle
  • Continuous Integration and Debug Support
• Performance of Generated Systems
  • Performance of Portals
  • Performance of Reads/Writes of System Memory
• Related Work
• Conclusion
• Portal Interface Structure
  • Portal Device Drivers
  • Portal Memory Map
• What is Connectal?
  • Lexicon
  • Example setups:
  • Background
  • Overview
  • An Example
  • simple/Top.bsv
  • simple/testsimple.cpp
  • Simple Example Design Structure
  • Shared Memory
  • Notes
• Interface Declarations
• Flow Control
• Host Interface